Tomras is a cryptic name appearing in the later columns of the Liber 777 correspondences system, associated with the 25th Path of the Tree of Life (the Path of Shin). The name appears to be a constructed or concealed title, likely drawn from the wider corpus of Graeco-Egyptian magical names and voces magicae that were common in the Hellenistic period. Its precise etymology is uncertain, though it conforms to the pattern of consonant-vowel-consonant structures found in the Magical Papyri, where such names were believed to encode the hidden names of powers or forces.

Position on the Tree of Life

Tomras is placed on the 25th Path (scale step 25), which corresponds to the Hebrew letter Shin (ש). On the Tree of Life, this Path connects Hod (Splendor) and Netzach (Victory), bridging the intellectual and emotional spheres. The 25th Path is considered a path of spiritual transformation and the “tooth” that consumes and transmutes lower influences, a theme that resonates with the fiery and transformative aspect attributed to Shin.

Astrological and planetary correspondence

According to Liber 777, the 25th Path is attributed to the element of Fire (in the Succedent series), and Tomras shares the classification set forth in Column CLXVII (Succedent). There is no independent planetary attribution for Tomras itself; its astrological context is bound to the Fire sub-element of the Succedent household, indicating a force that follows or proceeds from an initial impulse, sustaining and solidifying the transformative fire.

Historical context

The name “Tomras” does not appear in the extant Greek Magical Papyri or in the Egyptian temple texts that survive from antiquity. It likely originates from the synthetic work of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, whose members—especially S.L. MacGregor Mathers and Aleister Crowley—compiled and adapted series of magical names from a variety of sources, including the Steganographia of Trithemius and the Heptarchia Mystica of John Dee. In the Golden Dawn tradition, the names assigned to the Paths of the “Succedent” columns were often constructed using letter permutations or derived from larger angelic or divine name tables, then assigned systematically to the Tree of Life. Tomras is thus an example of a name that functions as an index of power rather than as a known figure from mythology or scripture. It likely serves as a magical name to be used in invocations or meditative work on the 25th Path.

In Liber 777, Tomras is listed specifically as one of the objects of the 25th Path in the column As Col. CLXVII (Succedent). It is one of a sequence of names within the same row that includes other unusual forms such as Merota (Path 24), Riruphta (Path 26), Vucula (Path 28), and Sourut (Path 29), suggesting a group of names that were generated or transmitted together from a source now lost to general scholarship. This context suggests that Tomras was regarded not as a deity or spirit with an independent cult, but as a formulaic name appropriate to the Succedent mode—expressing a secondary, developing force within the Fire hierarchy on the Tree of Life.

Closing

In Liber 777, Tomras appears as the entry for the 25th Path in the column “As Col. CLXVII (Succedent),” providing a specific name for the Fire current that follows the initial impulse on this Path. For the occult practitioner, Tomras may be employed in ritual work involving the transformative and sustaining aspects of Fire on the 25th Path, as a verbal focus for energies that bridge the abyss between Hod and Netzach.